Wedding Times, Safari, and other random stuff

They have the swords...in case someone tries to stop the wedding
Wore a banner for our NGO called GSV. This is me and an english teacher from another island
 This dance lasted until 2 o'clock!
 Me giving a speach
 The bride

Nieces of the groom...the group of over a 1000 women had to SLOWLY walk by the bride and groom and while waving money and brushing it on their face
 He wanted me to take a picture with my motorcycle...
 My friend presenting his paper (or "book") he wrote on customs after his internship he did while studying at an Institute
 Volleyball match 2 days after getting back...
 While gone, a rat decided to dig out a good portion of my wall and pour it all over the floor...happens often when I travel
 We started our safari bright and early...I got the kid car which was AWESOME...after I eventually got a little bored with the animals I got to play with the cutest kids ever
 majestic (i stole these pictures from Sonia, THANKS sonia! i lost my camera on the trip)
 we saw one rhino. from a distance i thought I was seeing something cause I saw it shoot a rocket out of it's butt or farting or something, then when we got closer and it repeated this multiple times with massive blasts....I got told later I guess it was peeing....explosively. Best part of the safari by far.
 another bus havin fun
 We missed the lion...but we saw his handiwork
 Look at that proud little cute little guy
 these exist on the big island also
 i didn't actually get to see this, I was too distracted by a big snake on the road...as well as a (this is not a pg rated blog anymore) monkey that had electric blue balls...seriously. it exists. 
 not this one, this momma's just chillin with her baby
 saw several of these....
 oh hello
 did I mention cute kids?

 picture taken by none other than our own John Stodghill....beautiful
 they're so cute and tiny...i feel like i always thought zebra's where the same size as horses..but they're pretty small like donkeys
 this one's for you mom!
 team xmas celebration. i take soooo many pictures...and very high quality as well
 she kept giving and taking her present of candy to people...

 white elephant gift exchange
america!

 giving candy...
she got this tiny backpack

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